Chapter 20 Dim Sum in the Tang Dynasty
The Doctor brought two pounds of lamb. Generally, mutton mostly has a fishy smell, and lamb meat has less fishy smell. Of course, it is also more expensive. Cut neatly into a plate of meat, Li Chen quickly picked up a piece, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it slowly.
"Oh my God, it's been a long time since I've had a good plate of meat." , Li Chen carefully tasted the taste in his mouth, swallowed him, and picked up another piece of meat. Although the meat has a fishy smell, it is flavored with pepper to hide the fishy smell. However, Li Chen felt that the store was stingy, so he sprinkled that little pepper.
"It's apricot jam, well, it's delicious. Although it is simply seasoned, it shows the true color of the food. It's delicious.'" Although I am dissatisfied with the lack of pepper, the mutton is a bit orangutan, but it is covered with apricot jam, and it is not heavy. Li Chen burst into tears after eating, how long has it been? It's been more than a month, and he hasn't eaten a plate of meat. It's not easy to eat this meat.
I remember that as soon as he was reborn, he lay on the couch for a few days. Finally, his health was better, and he fled from Chang'an in a hurry. On the boat, there is meat, but it is all fish, all of which are caught by the boatman, and he does not like to eat fish very much, and he is about to eat river fish.
After that, I lived in the monk's temple for a month, will the monk's temple give me meat? Of course not. After that, Li Chen followed the monks to the countryside to preach and collect rent, and originally hoped to eat some meat. It's a pity that he knew that he had come with a group of monks, and no one dared to entertain them to eat a few pieces of meat.
Carnivore Li Chen, a little driven crazy, originally thought that it was not bad to be a tent in the monk's temple. However, he ignored one thing, the monks and temples were not open, and now there are no vegetarian chickens, ducks, fish, meat and other vegetarian dishes to eat, which almost drove him crazy.
I finally waited until a few days ago. From the account, he allocated six monthly salaries to himself, which was what the abbot told him at the beginning. He planned to go to the town for a good meal.
"Zan, this is life, and living without meat is in vain. It's not a good wine.'" Li Chen licked his mouth with satisfaction, picked up the wine glass, and took a sip, "Why don't you eat it?" Li Chen carefully tasted the taste of meat that he hadn't tasted for a long time, looked at Fan and looked at him blankly, and asked.
"Thirteen Lang, you eat meat like this, aren't you afraid to go back and scold the abbot?" "What are you afraid of?" I'm not a monk in the temple, and I can't eat outside if I don't eat it." Li Chen disagreed.
"Eat it, there's nothing good to eat in this temple." , Li Chen will not be selfish and feast alone, let Xiao Shami watch alone, he called a lot of snacks for Fan, and planned to supplement nutrition for him, such a small child, when he is developing, although the temple will not lose food, but the nutrition must not be enough.
"Thirteen Lang, there's no meat in here, right?" "Of course not, the doctor won't give you a faint look, you didn't see that when you just came in, everyone was glaring at me." , in order not to let everyone eat unsteadily, otherwise it would be in vain that he took him out for a good meal today, so he found a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, a waiter in modern times, and a little two in costume dramas.
"Doctor, what's this called? There's no faintness in there, right?' "Hui Langjun, I promise, these are for the novices to eat, and there is no faintness in them. In our barn town, many good believers are also vegetarians, and they don't dare to spoil others and have to practice." Mu Lian's mother, how can you go to hell, isn't it just to replace the vegetarian buns you used to get with meat buns? She was so tired that she wanted to go to hell to save her mother.
"These snacks, this is the crystal dragon and phoenix cake, the seven back ointment, the finished food, the flame cup, the single cage of golden soufflé...", Li Chen only asked one he didn't understand. Then the doctor was so neat that he came up with a lot of names.
Li Chen admired it very much, it was too smooth. Not only did he report the name of the dish, but he also introduced the method by the way, if it weren't for other guests calling him, he might have to finish the introduction. What a doctor.
"I'll tell you it's not smelly, let's eat it." "Okay. Hmm~, this is delicious." , Lifan let go of his worries and began to feast, and Li Chen also ate a little.
First of all, Li Chen sandwiched a piece of so-called crystal dragon and phoenix cake, glutinous rice made of pastry, the surface of the red date inlaid with the dragon and phoenix, called crystal dragon and phoenix cake, steamed and filled with glutinous rice cake fragrant Q transparent, looks quite attractive.
The brahmin made a light and high dough and added brown sugar to make steamed buns. As for why it is called Brahmin, according to the doctor, it is because the method of making sugar is transmitted from Brahmin, so it is called Brahmin light and high. The genuine brown sugar steamed bun has a very special aroma and sweetness when eaten.
Seven times back to the ointment, the doctor foamed at the mouth and said, saying that this thing was a lot of work. The chef first greases one side of the dough, then folds it up and greets it. This is repeated seven times, and finally steamed in a steamer basket to resemble a round flower. To put it bluntly, it's actually a bit similar to how modern people eat hanamaki, but it's really more effortless than hanamaki....
Single cage golden soufflé, I don't know what it is when I hear the name. But when you see food, you know it. Li Chen is not unfamiliar with this thing, and he has a big milk queen bag. It looks golden and tastes quite delicious.
After eating, it is a bit like a bun, with a bag of things in it. Li Chen ordered garlic food Bi Shi Luo, this is the most popular, it is said that it is also passed in by the Hu people, the doctor regretted to say, I heard that someone can make cherry Shi Shi Luo, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance to see it.
The flame cup is a bit like a hair cake. Don't understand? To put it simply, the top is like a flame shape, and the bottom is a cup-shaped pasta. During the Chinese New Year, the local custom is to worship this kind of pasta when worshipping ancestors, hoping to make a fortune in the coming year. Li Chen didn't know if the Tang people worshiped this kind of thing during the New Year.
Li Chen followed and ate some, and ordered a lot of things, and Fan Fan couldn't finish it alone. Li Chen ate a few bites and tasted the taste, and he found that the Tang people seemed to be particularly fond of steaming, and those that were to be fried in oil were almost all from the Western Regions.
"Doctor, let's have another plate of mutton." "Lang-kun, I'll send it to you right away." , Although he ate some snacks, Li Chen felt that it was not enough, he was originally a big belly man. I asked for another plate of meat, but after all, I had already eaten a lot, and Li Chen didn't eat this plate of meat, a mouthful of pork, a glass of wine, comfortable.
"This degree... Ha, no wonder the people of the Tang Dynasty were not guilty of a thousand cups at every turn." , Li Chen drank a little wine and said slightly drunk. The alcohol of the Tang people is really not high. Li Chen asked for two jugs of wine, and the doctor brought sake, and also sent a stove, and on the stove with a low fire, the wine was raised to about sixty or seventy degrees.
The so-called sake is relatively cloudy, not the Japanese sake. However, it is very likely that the Japanese learned the word sake from the Tang Dynasty. After all, they were deeply affected by Tangization.
When the wine is freshly brewed, it is light green and has some white floating matter on it, which is called cloudy wine, which is not only low in degree, but also may taste a little strange. Sake, on the other hand, is a cloudy sake that has been filtered. The power will be slightly higher.
"In this cold day, drinking wine and eating lamb is really a great joy in life. When the great white floats.'" Li Chen took another drink. The degree is not high enough to make sake slightly drunk, but it will not really get drunk, and the body will be a little hot in this weather, so it will not feel cold. It's very comfortable, no wonder the Tang people love to drink so much, and they feel very comfortable when they are slightly drunk.
There are poems as evidence: green ants new wine, red clay small stove, late days of snow, can drink a glass of nothing. The ancients said that this is very poetic and comfortable. Li Chen is now sake, and he also has a small stove, so he doesn't have to strain it himself, which is more comfortable.
"Why, you want to drink it too." Li Chen was drunk, and when he saw Fan Yande, he asked. "Master said you can't drink it." , Fan pouted, "Thirteen Lang, is it really that good?" Behold every one of you like this.'" , who said that it was in this wine shop.
This wine shop is typical of the Tang Dynasty store. The ground floor is very transparent, but now it's cold, the door panel is installed, there is only one exit, and the kitchen is behind. There are probably more than a dozen tables in it.
Now at this time, the number of people is slowly increasing. Because this wine shop provides a lot of food, many people are like Li Chen, eating wine and eating at the same time, and their faces are drunk.
"I'll give you a drink." No, no, the abbot said, "You can't drink wine, you can't eat meat." , Fan shook his head violently.
"Drink a little, and your master won't know." If you don't say it, I don't say it, who will know.'" "Still no, Senior Brother Wuming said, a gentleman doesn't deceive the dark room, and it can't be a monk." , Fan refused to move out of his senior brother's words, "Even in private."
"That's okay for others. Not for you.'" Li Chen smiled and nodded his head, "First of all, you are not a monk yet, just a novice. Again, people have tasted it before they know why it's bad. You haven't even drunk wine, and if people ask you..."
"Zen Master, why can't you drink alcohol? You told him why, but if the world says that you haven't drunk it yourself, how do you know if it's true or not?" Li Chen pretended to be serious and snickered in his stomach.
"This... It's not good to drink, you just can't drink.'" Then I'm asking you, didn't the King of Jizo Bodhisattva say that if he doesn't go to hell, who will go to hell? Now you will go to hell, drink more wine, and the world will suffer less.'"
"This... I don't think so.'" It sounds very reasonable, but it shouldn't be like this, "Drink, drink, drink it, the wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha sits in the heart." You think it is wine, and water is wine, and if you think it is not wine, it is water.'" In this way, Fan Xiao Shami was taken by a bad uncle.
After drinking all the wine, naturally he couldn't even run away from the meat, Li Chen sandwiched another piece of mutton and gave it to Fan to eat, who knew that as soon as Fan ate it, he cried.